Welcome, everyone the subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on both budgetary and policy priority is in the middle east for the fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from the witnesses about the 2020 budget2020budget for the departf Near Eastern Affairs bureau. Thanks the witnesses were appearing today and now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant administrator for testifying today nearly three years into the administration the United States faces a multitude of challenges while the administration touts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destabilize from iraq to lebanon despite President Trumps bellicose rhetoric, tehran has been able to launch attacks in the International Shipping and regional states and undermining the deterrence and credibility in the process. The program was more intense today than it was on the day President Trump took office and the International Community is more divided in confronting i
Middle east for the fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from the witnesses about the 2020 budget2020budget for the departf Near Eastern Affairs bureau. Thanks the witnesses were appearing today and now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant administrator for testifying today nearly three years into the administration the United States faces a multitude of challenges while the administration touts its maximum pressure policy, iran continues to destabilize from iraq to lebanon despite President Trumps bellicose rhetoric, tehran has been able to launch attacks in the International Shipping and regional states and undermining the deterrence and credibility in the process. The program was more intense today than it was on the day President Trump took office and the International Community is more divided in confronting it. Iran continues to imprison americans including my constituents and finally the human rights of its own people. Iran
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